Annie Leibovitz

Leibovitz started out as a photo journalist and she mentions in her film that her subject is her life. Leibovitz goes on to saysWhat is a photographers life? and she follows u this question with her own answer and that being 'A life working though a lens' 

Leibovitz started photography at her house when she was young, all of her photographs she put up on walls so she could see all of them. They were broken up into sections. One section being her personal wall of photographs and then the other being what she had done for magazines later on in her life. 

Leibovitz mainly captures documentary photography, meaning daily life. In her first years of being a photographer she took photos of her family and close friends. She had quite a big family with brother and sister older and younger than her. She moved from place to place with her family in the car so when Leibovitz was growing up that was like a stable unit for her to grow in. Going a little further into the film she goes on to say the car was really a ready made picture frame. That's how she seen the world. Leibovitz felt like the camera was another member of the family so it didn't matter what photos she took, it just fit in with everything.

Her photography is mainly viewed in and around the world in magazines, book and also online. when she was touring with the Rolling Stones She was never told what to do so she had free will to do whatever she wanted to do within reason. This gave her some really good space to do what she wanted to do and also what she wanted to capture. 

One of the rolling Stone band members said that she was great adapting to situations, Leibovitz always blended in and was never in the way or out of place. The movement that she captured in gigs and also in the hotels and on the road were fantastic. she met Bea whiler, She knew most famous photographers in New York. This was a big step for Leibovitz. 

With Leibovitz working for the Rolling Stones she started taking drugs. But not long after she left she went and got professional help and soon after she was back on track again. 

Leibovitz went on to talk about magazine cover and she said 'The front cover is not a photograph. It's to sell it. my real photographs are in the actual magazine' When getting into magazine shooting she then started to venture out and she started working for Vogue, this was a big step for her as she was trying something different. All of the shoots she did with Vogue got a budget attached to it but Leibovitz didn't bother about that and she got whatever she wanted because the people at Vogue knew that she would get the results that they wanted so the budget was just a rough guide line that was never stuck too at all. 

All of Leibovitz work is just spot on! i really like how she uses contrast in her images to make a bold looking image. what Leibovitz had was what she worked with to start with and that is something that i am currently doing. Nothing fancy but just stuff that works and gets the result that you intend to get.